| Description |
1 online resource (412 pages) |
| Series |
Greek Literature ; Volume 5
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Greek literature series ; Volume 5.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Section A. Historiography; 1. Narrative Surface and Authorial Voice in Herodotus' Histories; 2. The Historians of the Classical World and Their Audiences; 3. Who Read Herodotus' Histories?; 4. Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences and the Story of Rhapsinitus and the Thief in the Histories; 5. Herodotus and the Language of Metals; 6. Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos' Histories; 7. Herodotus the Tourist; 8. Thucydides' Use of Herodotus; 9. Thucydides in the Act of Writing. |
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10. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyrean Affair in Thucydides I11. Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily; 12. Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice; 13. A Post-Modernist Thucydides; 14. Silent Women of Thucydides: 2.45.2 Re-Viewed; 15. Pseudo-Xenophon; Section B. Oratory; 16. Rhetorical Performative Discourse: A New Theory of Epideictic; 17. On Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously; 18. Dikastic Thorubos; 19. The Athenian ""Politicians, "" 403-322 B.C.; 20. Poetry and the Demos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession. |
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21. Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory22. The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches; 23. The Epiphany of Demosthenes; Copyright Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: reference@routledge-ny.com.]]> |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. |
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Greek literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Nagy, Gregory, editor, author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nagy, Gregory. Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780815336860 |
| ISBN |
9781136540448 (electronic bk.) |
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113654044X (electronic bk.) |
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9780203055908 (electronic bk.) |
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020305590X (electronic bk.) |
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9780815336860 |
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